Luke 18:5
yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not wear me out by continually coming to me.’”
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
In Context
6Then the Lord said, “Consider what this unrighteous judge said.
Cross References
Matthew 15:23But he did not respond to her at all. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”
Luke 11:8I tell you, even if he will not get up and give yoʋ anything because yoʋ are his friend, yet because of yoʋr shameless persistence, he will get up and give yoʋ as much as yoʋ need.
Matthew Henry on Luke 18:2-9
The Unjust Judge. 1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. 4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 5 Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. 6 And the… Read the whole commentary →